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Scientific notation is used to represent numbers which are
either very large or very small. For example:
Lets say you had 550,000 trees you were managing, instead of
writing this out you could convert this number to scientific
notation.
Example
550,000 (ordinary notation)
= 5.5 x 100,000
= 5.5 x 105
So as you can see a number in scientific notation is expressed as
B x 10k where B is greater to or equal to 1 and less than
10 and k is an integer. |
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